Video: Getting media from other sources

Many types of devices other than DV and HDV camcorders record and store video and still image files. Using Premiere Elements, you can import files from a variety of hardware devices or import music, video, image and graphics files directly from your hard drive. You do that inside the Organize Task workspace and specifically in the Get Media toolset. I have talked about how you get video from tape devices like a DV camcorder. In this case, we are going to talk about getting them from different kinds of hardware that store them as files. Specifically, these four, DVD or digital still camera or a mobile phone or a high definition device that records to a hard drive, stores things as files.

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Getting media from other sources

Many types of devices other than DV and HDV camcorders record and store videoand still image files. Using Premiere Elements, you can import files from avariety of hardware devices or import music, video, image and graphics filesdirectly from your hard drive. You do that inside the Organize Task workspaceand specifically in the Get Media toolset.I have talked about how you get video from tape devices like a DV camcorder.In this case, we are going to talk about getting them from different kinds ofhardware that store them as files. Specifically, these four, DVD or digitalstill camera or a mobile phone or a high definition device that records to ahard drive, stores things as files.

So when you click any one of these four, it opens up the same kind of dialog box, the Media Downloader. When you go here to look for anything that's attachedto your computer, in this case we have got a digital still camera attached tothe computer, the Canon EOS 5D. You click that and it connects to the deviceand starts downloading the images.Now you don't need to select all 86 images, you can go down here and click theAdvanced Dialog button and select whatever images you want to select. So we will just un-click everything and select a couple of images. Then go Get Media.And it adds those three image files to your project.

If you want to import files directly from your hard drive, you can justdouble-click in here and that will open up the Import or Add Media dialog box,or you can go back to Get Media and click on this little button here, and it will open up that same dialog box. When you are in here,if you are using a particular type of video format, in this case avi files, andyou click on Show Thumbnails or Large Icons, you can actually see the openingframe of each of those clips to give you an idea of what they are about.If you go to a different one, let's say, that has only mov files, which areQuickTime mov files, it will not show you those thumbnails. That's one littledisadvantage, but if you have something like an avi file, you will be able tosee how they look and you can select them one at a time by holding Ctrl andclicking on various things. Or you marquee select by just dragging to selecta number of them. Or you can use another shortcut. Clicking on one andShift+Clicking on another and it will select all of them in between thecontiguous files. When you click Open, it adds all those files to your project.

Now it's not actually adding the files themselves; it's adding links to those files. It doesn't copy and paste them or something like that. It just creates links. Finally, the one other thing out here is if you have a webcam connectedto your computer, you can click on this. It will open up a little dialog box.It will allow you to take an image directly from your webcam as you create it.So that's basically how you get media assets other than tape into your project.Now that you have imported all these files, you are ready to go out and edit a video.

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